Multi-Sample Moisture Content Analyzer

To start a measurement, place up to 9 sample pans in TrueDry's rotating tray, close the lid, and select a program.

Conforms with AOAC, ASTM, ISO

TrueDry lets you select the drying temperature and time (or alternatively, allows you to dry to constant weight). This lets you specify primary AOAC, ASTM, or ISO standard drying methods.

Controlled Contact Drying

Using a method called "controlled contact drying," TrueDry heats the sample, not the sample chamber. Heater coils and sensors are located just millimeters from each individual sample for precise temperature control.

Monitor Weight Automatically

As the sample dries, TrueDry monitors the weight automatically, cycling each sample onto the scale pan for repeated weight measurements. The enclosed sample chamber protects the sample from ambient temperature and humidity effects.

Dry to a Standard

At the end of the test, dessicated air in the sample chamber dries each sample to a consistent vapor pressure (1% RH).

Save More Than 150 Labor Hours a Year

Drying nine samples at once without repetitive swapping frees up more than 150 hours of labor a year for labs that measure 12 or more moisture samples in a typical work day.

Just One Interruption

TrueDry gives you the precision of a drying oven without moving samples between balances, ovens, and dessicators--just one interruption of your workflow to measure nine samples.

Dry Instead of Burning

Driving off water at lower temperatures delivers the precision of oven drying with the efficiency of a moisture balance.

Decagon's instruments are used by more than 80% of the top 100 foods companies. They're also used by pet food manufacturers, pharmaceutical companies, universities, government agencies, research and testing labs, and in other industrial applications.

Water Activity

When Decagon was founded in 1983, water activity was still an emerging concept in the food industry. Now most companies measure water activity to assure the safety and quality of their products. The speed and accuracy of the AquaLab series of water activity meters has become an industry standard.

Interesting Decagon Facts:

Decagon has done many novel water activity projects for manufacturers, including measuring the water activity of cupric oxide in air bags and determining the moisture content of plastic pellets.

Decagon got a peek into military life when the Department of Defense Combat Feeding Program used water activity to make sandwiches with a three-year shelf-life for MREs.

Decagon is located in Pullman, Washington, home of Washington State University.

Quality Management at Decagon

In order to provide timely feedback to the high volume of vendor surveys and evaluation requests Decagon Devices, Inc. receives, Decagon has created a Quality Survey Response for our customers. We have designed this response to fit the majority of the questions we are asked in regards to our Quality Management System, ISO9001:2008 registration and calibration services.